The “Cut out and Keep” Guide to How Chords Work

By Andy@Musicademy | May 3, 2013

Here’s a handy guide to help you understand the notes the most common basic and extended chords. If you’ve not done much chord theory its really worth absorbing. Chords – the knowledge… that must be obeyed at all times!! 1. Basic Chords Basic chords are known as triads as they only contain 3 notes. Even […]

5 things that happen when the songs are too high

By Guest Blogger | May 2, 2013

I was recently watching a well-known worship leader lead worship at a church that was broadcasting its service online. His leadership was excellent, the played was playing well, and the songs were really good. There was one problem, though. The keys were all way too high. I’ve written before about the art (it’s not really […]

I am the vicar, I am

By Marie@Musicademy | April 24, 2013

I am the vicar, I am. I am the pastor, the carer, the listener the one with the time to drop everything and I also understand global politics and immigration and I am the one who knows about Afghanistan and cares about ‘our boys’ and I care about speed-humps graffiti litter and the positioning of […]

Training Tracks for worship drummers

By admin | April 23, 2013

Minus drums worship training tracks Following the success of our Training Tracks for guitarists, we have released four albums of tracks for worship drummers. These enable you to: 1. Learn the drum parts 2. Practise with the band 3. Play along to a drumless track For every song you get three versions. One stripped down […]

WWJD vs WWAPD

By admin | April 20, 2013

Once upon a time, a mother made her son a wristband. On it was written: WWJD. This, of course stood for: What Would Jesus Do?’ She instructed her son to look at the wristband before making decisions on how to live his Christian life. A week later she was shocked to see that her son had […]

Genuine terrible Christian demo tapes #2

By Marie@Musicademy | April 17, 2013

Here’s the second in our series of “interesting” Christian demos. These were genuinely sent to a record company A and R. In this demo we never actually get to hear the vocal. But we do get an awful lot of information about the lady in question. Enjoy! Click the arrow to listen. [Audio clip: view […]

Worship Backing Band DVD Volume 2 launched

By Marie@Musicademy | April 15, 2013

ll new songs. Mixable vocals. Create your own play lists. The lowest cost option for worship backing tracks. Does your church want to have great times of worship together but you don’t have any musicians?  Worship Backing Band Volume 2 is a single DVD featuring backing tracks for 35 contemporary worship songs with on-screen lyrics […]

Bad habits of vocalists and what to do about them #2. Posture

By Cat Mayne | April 12, 2013

Posture for singers Everyone has them – those little things that we do without even thinking about them. Bad habits in singing, as well as in life, are things that we don’t necessarily notice we do unless someone points them out to us. Over these posts I’m highlight the most common bad habits I come […]

Free worship bass lesson – In Christ Alone

By admin | April 9, 2013

Here’s a free lesson taken from the Bass Song Learner series. Here Matt Weeks teaches the Stuart Townend and Ketih Getty hymn In Christ Alone. You will learn a great bass part to this modern hymn and develop positional playing and economy of finger movement in Eb using passing notes, harmony lines that work tastefully […]